Monday, January 31, 2011

"How to Write a (Good) Sentence"

It's harder than it looks. What is needed for most is a critic and editor whose good taste and intolerance for rubbish cause the writer to aspire rather than to quit trying. Someone like E.B. White.
Posted by at 1:25 PM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

The hardest tasks of the English teacher today is to convince students that creation of paragraphs(i.e., new thoughts) are essential, and not insurmountable, and that varied diction is necessary to express complex thought.

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February 01, 2011 10:54 AM

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